Burst decode can sit in disaggregation prealloc/transfer queues while health probes still need an immediate scheduler-alive response, and EAGLE prebuilt metadata must outlive the synthetic prebuilt step until the first real decode consume. The transfer path also needs to send final aux metadata even when there are no new KV pages in the final chunk.
This keeps decode metadata slot ownership narrow instead of cloning EAGLE tensors, adds fail-safe cleanup for prebuilt exceptions/finished prebuilt requests, fixes final empty chunk metadata transfer, and records the investigation ledger for future debugging.
Constraint: bs=1 historically worked, so decode compute/sampling behavior must not be changed without direct evidence.
Rejected: Clone EAGLE metadata tensors on transfer commit | avoids lifetime issues but adds hot-path CPU/GPU memory traffic.
Rejected: Treat prefill AbortReq logs as root cause | current evidence shows they can be downstream of decode/router aborts.
Confidence: medium
Scope-risk: moderate
Directive: Do not move EAGLE metadata slot release earlier than first real decode result processing without proving the H2D/spec_info consume point changed.
Tested: g0034 docker py_compile for touched scheduler/disagg/test files; PYTHONPATH=python python -m pytest -q test/registered/unit/disaggregation/test_decode_queue_compaction.py test/registered/unit/mem_cache/test_req_to_token_pool.py test/registered/unit/managers/test_scheduler_health_check.py -> 24 passed
Not-tested: Fresh end-to-end burst traffic after restart; decode node_rank=1 persistent log capture.
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